EddieDean

I’ve watched 11/13 of these now, and I’ve absolutely loved this project. The material is so interesting and relatable, and you’ve cut it in a way that makes it really digestible and coherent. Totally great, thank you so much for compiling and structuring it all in this way.

Amazing news! What’s still left to do on ANH:R?

Acbagel said:

Wrapped up draft #2 yesterday and currently getting a final review of it. Will probably need one more pass for bug fixes and maybe a new scene placement or two and then it’s ready.

Can confirm I just reviewed the latest draft and this is my exact feedback 😉

Love the new poster too by the way. Great use of the N1 silhouette as Mando’s mask!

I’ve seen the draft and it’s already my favourite version of the Boba show yet. Acbagel has selected the absolute right set of scenes, and made the absolute right set of trims to those scenes. I’m REALLY excited to see the final version of this one - I think it’s going to be the best way to watch Book of Boba Fett out there.

Thanks to g00b and explay, we now have subtitles for season one! Thanks both for your help.

If anyone would like to check them out, they’re now in the spreadsheet (you can find links to them by episode or by season just above). We’d love any feedback.

Problem with Google Drive was that I had to use multiple accounts, and eventually Google started wanting me to have a unique phone number per account. I guess I could pay for one large Google Drive, but that’s even more cash. Cheapest would be splitting it across three low-cost Google Drives, but then I might hit the same issues.

TCW:R is 166GB (and growing), and my total fanedits are 250GB.

Google Drive isn’t sustainable for long-term storage, so I’ve just finally finished shifting everything to Mega, which fanedit.org recommends.

However, now I’ve got another problem - there’s a download (‘transfer’) limit.

Does anyone know of a decent solution here? I don’t want people to have to download these really slowly over a couple of weeks. But I can’t afford to pay for more than the basic hosting solution (Pro Lite) - it’s already costing me a lot to use Mega versus Google Drive.

Sure thing, fire me a PM.

Showing Dooku here would also follow nicely from his excellent appearance in Tales of the Jedi.

Yeah, that one was a tricky decision. We ended up justifying it as the Coruscant news being controlled by the Empire, but yes, it slightly stands out. It’s so necessary though in order to permit this tighter ordering.

Sure, please fire me a PM!

On the Boba voice, your other option here is to use a clean voice of Fennec saying “You still have that famous armour of yours?” or “You’ll need your armour first.” Then you only need Boba to say “Not yet” or “Agreed”, or similar.

One other thought: Depending on how good your Boba AI voice is, it might be nice to add, during the Boba-Fennec fireside chat in movie 2, something along the lines of “but first I’m going to get my armour back”, explaining the two-movie diversion where he seeks his armour before establishing a house.

Oh, and I really like how you start each movie’s audio over the opening credits. It’s become your signature and it’s very cool.

Absolutely LOVED your updated book three. This is a bridging movie with the least plot - “try to find some Mandalorians, I guess” - and knows it, but it uses its position as a middle episode to do a lot. Your ending sequence is EXCELLENT. The Shadow Council scene works much better as a stinger, spinning up the Thrawn, Palpatine, AND Mando S3 storylines deftly, and essentially saying “don’t worry, we are going somewhere fast”. It pays off the cloning stuff on Nevarro from earlier this movie very well. Then, your montage does a lot of great heavy lifting, telling the audience that the Boba, Bo Katan, and Gideon plots are also well in focus. And the darktroopers are now more explicitly the reinforcements, which works well here. You’ve made some excellent choices here. Really well done.

This really affirms your decision to use as much as possible, but in a creative way.

Edit: Oh, and having Boba snipe Mando was perfect. Extremely elegant, relevant, and competently done.

Edit edit: The only thing I sorely miss is the fuller aspect ratio for the Krayt dragon. I’d love to see that reinstated, it was such a spectacular moment.

Watching movie 3 now, and just a couple of notes:

• There’s a slightly odd couple of shots on the ice planet as Grogu is eating the spider - one of Grogu from fairly close up, followed immediately by one only slightly zoomed out from that point. In general, a shot transition from a single subject to the same subject should change angle, or switch between close and wide shots. These are just a little too close to each other. There seems to be a lot of other opportunities in this section to pad both with a bit of Mando heading out to find him.
• Both Tattooine and Nevarro seem coloured too much towards orange-teal. Boba looks like an orange with teal shade, and the later Nevarro facility looks dark teal rather than grey. If you want to bring the colours to life a bit more I’d suggest perhaps a 5% contrast enhancement and 5-10% holistic shift to warmer tones, but not so much of a specific shift to orange-teal in this way.

Loving the first quarter so far though- structurally it’s all excellent, and I love that you kept the ice planet in there.

We are live on IFDB! 😄

Maybe Palps experimented on Rey’s Dad, but it failed (or succeeded horribly)? He could even be force sensitive in this version, a threat to Palpatine who chose to become a nobody, living on the fringes of civilisation, out of fear for his origins and love for his wife and child. That’d explain why Palpatine would resent him so much.

I feel like this is an unexpectedly neat angle. But yeah, probably not for your edit, as you say.

Here’s an even more extreme angle that follows from the previous - what if Rey’s dad was captured by Ochi and taken to Palpatine, who tortured him into obedience and deep into the dark side, and raised him as a subservient Sith - giving him the name Snoke. Then, Rey REALLY has a reason to want to kill Palpatine - for vengeance for her father. I’m not suggesting you use this idea, or even that it’s good - more that it’s an angle I’ve not yet seen considered.

This might be a whole new kettle of fish, but what you’ve just said about all the onscreen material about Rey’s parents has made me realise that it might have been originally intended to set up something else - that Ochi was sent to capture Rey’s dad (Palpatine’s son), not Rey. That’s why it’s the same ship, and why they had to abandon her on Jakku - she was likely secret from him at that time. Ochi ended up on Pasaana and died after having done whatever he did with Rey’s dad.

Very nice! I hope you guys can bounce off each other nicely to generate some good ideas. Best of luck!

Is this movies or TV-length episodes? How will it differ from g00b’s?

I could go for that being reinstated too - that section has always been just a little too fast in terms of Mando’s movements.

(…and then I’d argue it makes an even stronger argument for my little trims to speed up the later content 😉)

Loved both movies 1 and 2. Both are structured excellently, feel focused and movie-like, and flow well. I especially enjoyed the balance of Boba/Mando in movie 2, and the movement of Sorgan to exclusively book two. I wouldn’t change any of their structure, stories, or trims. And your audio editing has got noticeably smoother. Definitely my mains.

However, you have a major issue with colour in book one. I know you’ve responded to comments here, but it’s a significant deterioration of colour, and more than just saturation, it’s added really strong unnatural shades of teal and orange. Have a look at the difference: https://ibb.co/NK2Gby3. If it’s deliberate recolouring, please reconsider! If not, something is going wrong in your pipeline - either an effect is being applied (and it should be easy to un-apply it), or you’re reading the files in a slightly incorrect colour space that’s maybe being compounded if your later versions are editing the rendered outputs of your earlier versions. This might be related to your crushed blacks issue from before, which also suggests a slightly incorrect colour space is being read. I know I’ve been a bit of a hound about these edits but I feel like they’re such a good idea and so well-executed that I just really want to champion you getting them to that 100% quality.

Other than that:

• Book one is great, as I say. You do still have the duplicated shot of Mando approaching the pirate station though. I think you can trim the second one away no problem.
• In book two, as I mentioned in a previous post, that duplicated scene.
• For me, even though your new book 2 improves the balance and pacing through to the ending, I’d probably still prefer to trim the Mando-Greef conflict and Mando’s head injury being serious, but that’s just me and I get why you’ve done that.

Looking forward to 3!

In movie 2 you have the “don’t touch the buttons” scene twice- once at the start and once at 80 mins in. Otherwise, it’s excellent so far. You’ve nailed the balance and transitions of the Boba and Mando content.